Research about Knowledge Forum[Symbol Not Transcribed] [registered symbol] and its predecessor, CSILE, documents superior learning gains in a number of areas, but can we be sure that similar gains are being realized at Joamie School? The database itself provides one indication as a teacher notes: 'T...

Describes how a teacher and a distance-learning consultant collaborate in using the Internet and Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environment (CISILE) to connect multicultural students on the harsh Baffin Island (Canada). Discusses the creation of the class's database and future implicat...

Current school culture places excessive emphasis on children reaching a
minimum standard impairing their ability to reach their greatest potential. Students need
to be challenged individually in authentic learning opportunities so that they can be
supported to thrive as individuals. Teaching philoso...

The report on the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1996), the Kelowna Accord announced in 2005 (five-billion dollars) followed by its demise in 2006, and the settlement in 2006 for Aboriginal survivors of residential schools (1.9 billion dollars), are but some of the recent high-profile indic...

While the ubiquity of Web 2.0 technologies disrupts conventional notions of schooling and literacy, its impact on learning is idiosyncratic at best. Taking the form of a dialogue based on the fifteen-week collaboration of two colleagues implementing an innovative first-year university writing co...

Offered between 2006 and 2009 and graduating 21 Inuit candidates, the Nunavut Master of Education program was a collaborative effort made to address the erosion of Inuit leadership in the K-12 school system after the creation of Nunavut, Canada’s newest territory, in 1999. Delivered to...

On July 1, 2009 at a special ceremony in Iqaluit, 21 Inuit women graduated from Nunavut’s first graduate degree program, a Master of Education in Leadership and Learning offered by the University of Prince Edward Island in partnership with Nunavut Department of Education, St. Franci...

This paper explores strategies to help prepare pre‐service teachers from a predominantly white, relatively isolated island in Atlantic Canada to teach for diversity. The paper proposes a modified framework for ‘teacher identity development’ that pivots around three foci for enhancing teach...

In education, reading and writing skills are important for children to learn. Students in
Nunavut are required to be bilingual and must be fluent in both English and Inuktitut in order to
graduate from high school. The purpose of this research project is to explore the idea of how
music can improve ...

This paper shares aspects of the life story of my grandmother Rachel Amarualik who
lived in the Igloolik area of Nunavut Canada from May 9, 1930 until August 24, 2001. She was
known as Amarualik and that is the primary name that is used throughout the paper. Amarualik
was born on the land called Nau...

This paper explores the impact of non-formal, community-based cultural programs with
embedded literacy on Inuit participants’ confidence. The Miqqut Project is analyzed as a case
study, which took place in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. All participants and Elder instructors were
Inuit women. Success fact...

Inuit need to know and understand about colonization before they can begin decolonizing. How
can anyone begin decolonizing when they do not know what they are decolonizing from? You
have to name and recognize the impact of colonization in order to start the process of
decolonization. This paper addr...

This reflection on the loss of sophisticated Inuit oral language is written from my
personal experiences while becoming a bilingual Inuk and then making a career as a Nunavut
educator. I worked as an Inuktitut teacher, teaching Inuktitut language arts from Kindergarten to
the college level (Nunavut ...

The bilingual education system is a requirement under the current Education Act
(Government of Nunavut, Department of Education, 2008) and is supported by many
Nunavummiut. Finding effective ways to teach both Inuktitut and English languages needs to be
explored and documented. This small research s...

This study investigates the opinions of Nunavut Arctic College students on the delivery of Inuit
language courses. After the advent of the Inuit Language Protection Act and the Official
Languages Act, we explore if the only post-secondary institution in Nunavut has enough
Inuktitut courses for stude...

In the mid-twentieth century, the forced relocation of Inuit from small hunting and fishing camps to larger, more central settlements shattered the longstanding ways of knowing and being that had defined relationships between people and their environment (Qikiqtani Truth Commission, 2010; Nunavut Tu...

Inuktitut remains one of the strongest Aboriginal languages in Canada, a status reinforced by legislation and policy of the Government of Nunavut. Nevertheless, its long-term viability is not without challenges. To understand how they have remained strong in Arviat, a small Inuit
community on the we...

This research involves transdisciplinary, participatory research to identify strategies, approaches, tools, and resources that promote effective knowledge translation related to health in the rural communities of Prince Edward Island (PEI). Partnerships established with six rural PEI communities ena...